Ellie
Later Mr. Otis comes in to announce dinner is being set up in the formal dining room. I look around and everyone is nicely dressed even though they are all in jeans. I start to say I can eat in my room when Maura grabs my hand slipping it into her arm. I limp along with Maura helping me. They are all happy. Not subdued or looking over their shoulders anymore. Truly laughing and enjoying their lives the way they should have always. Each of them having suffered for being tied to me in some way. I blink back the tears trying to form. I always prayed for them to be freed even if I remained trapped.
The sight of the dining room table has me stopping short. I haven’t eaten with a group of people at a table in five years. Maura and I always ate at the kitchen bar because they destroyed o
